Lazio, building condemned for tax evasion: here’s why

Problems with the tax authorities for Ciro Immobile. The Lazio striker will have to return to the tax authorities the sums not paid to his agent Alessandro Moggi as part of the operation that led to his transfer from Juventus to Genoa in the summer of 2012. It is a story born just ten years ago, on the which only a few days ago was put an end, with the conviction for the Biancoceleste center forward by the Court of Cassation. The judges held that, at the time of the facts, Alessandro Moggi acted not only as an intermediary of the deal (as a consultant for the Ligurian club), but that he was also the player’s agent. And therefore that the latter should also pay the IRPEF relative to the remuneration that is due in these cases to the player’s attorney. Which Immobile, on the other hand, did not do.

The defence

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The attacker, through his lawyers, defended himself in the various degrees of judgment by supporting the thesis that, at the time, Moggi was not his attorney (officially he became later) and that to represent his interests there was the ‘ agent Marco Sommella, complete with an exclusive mandate. But the judges did not believe this version, also because in the course of the investigations a series of documents were found which show evidence of an existing employment relationship between Immobile and Alessandro Moggi. Hence the condemnation. The player is still calm, he is training these days without problems and on Thursday evening he will be regularly in his place in the Europa League match with Feyenoord.